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The National Review is a U.S. Conservative magazine launched in 1955 by William F. Buckley, Jr.[1]

In the magazine's founding mission statement, Buckley attacked the predominant liberalism of post-war America:

There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals’. Drop a little itching powder in Jimmy Wechsler’s bath and before he has scratched himself for the third time, Arthur Schlesinger will have denounced you in a dozen books and speeches, Archibald MacLeish will have written ten heroic cantos about our age of terror, Harper’s will have published them, and everyone in sight will have been nominated for a Freedom Award. Conservatives in this country — at least those who have not made their peace with the New Deal, and there is serious question whether there are others — are non-licensed nonconformists; and this is dangerous business in a Liberal world, as every editor of this magazine can readily show by pointing to his scars.[2]

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  1. Douglas Martin, William F. Buckley Jr. Is Dead at 82, New York Times, 27 February 2008.
  2. William F. Buckley, Jr., Our Mission Statement, National Review, 19 November 1955.